Bare-Bones start on Moon possible?
Hello everyone,
I've been interested in SE for quite a few years now, even owned it for a while but was waiting for it to reach a more stable state. I assume it has done so now, at least I'd like to try for myself now that it's officially in beta. Over these years I've watched a couple of let's plays and think I actually have at least a basic grasp on the gameplay-aspect.
I just can't for the life of me figure out how to actually start the game I want to start... I'd like to start on the Moon (or "a" Moon), but not with the whole "easy start" base, but with just one basic ship. That could be one of the respawn ships or even the Landing Craft (assuming there's a version for non-atmospheric bodies). I've not found a (direct) way to do that, unfortunately.
When I start with the "Star System", I spawn on earth and have a few options (after suiciding) for starting with a lander on the other planets, but not on/near the moon. All of the respawn ships just spawn in orbit of earth, some just fall down no matter what you do, some can stay up there but I'm obviously not flying to the moon at 100 m/s from there...
Even starting on/near an Asteroid would be ok-ish, if planets existed in that world and I can just get my basic respawn ship. In my trials, I didn't manage to do that either though... Even in the "Lone Survivor" scenario I can't spawn in a basic ship actually near the platform, but any respawn ship is 200 km away (and as far as I've read there's no planets in that world either).
Do I need to use something from the workshop just to spawn on the moon with a basic ship? If so, can anyone recommend a very basic start there, as described above? Even when searching this sub (or in general) I've found very little information about this, or it was horribly outdated...
Posted Dec 25, 2016, 9:18 PM UTC
The most straight-forward way to do this is probably to start in the Star System map (or one of the other scenarios, not sure if Star System has hostile bases off the top of my head), but do so in Creative mode. Paste your desired starter ship into the world, save, then go to the menu and set the world to survival.
Bit of a hassle, but probably simpler and faster than looking for a custom scenario.
Ah. Right. You can switch modes at any time... I forgot about that. Well I guess I'll just give that a go, thanks a bunch!
Additionally, you can start on the Moon Easy Start scenario, switch into Creative mode, delete the starter base, place down some solar panels, a refinery and assembler and switch back to Survival mode.
Well, as it turns out that would've been better actually... Ah well, I'm in my world now ;)
Better because apparently the "Star System" start doesn't contain pirate bases anywhere...I would've liked to have one or two within reach.
you can edit the easy start scenario to have pirate bases, but there's really no point in them. the resources required to take them out is way higher than what they actually yield.
Don't forget to put the solar panels on rotors!